Haboroteuthis
Appearance
Haboroteuthis Temporal range:
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Haboroteuthis poseidon, holotype, a lower jaw. Frontal (A), left lateral (B), dorsal (C), and right lateral (D) views | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Teuthida |
(unranked): | incertae sedis |
Genus: | †Haboroteuthis Kazushige Tanabe, Akihiro Misaki, and Takao Ubukata 2015 |
Haboroteuthis is an extinct genus of squid that lived during the Cretaceous period. The only species that has been classified in the genus is H. poseidon.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Tanabe, Kazushige; Misaki, Akihiro; Ubukata, Takao (2015). "Late Cretaceous record of large soft-bodied coleoids based on lower jaw remains from Hokkaido, Japan" (PDF). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 60 (1): 27–38. doi:10.4202/app.00052.2013. ISSN 0567-7920. OCLC 5789669966. Retrieved 22 August 2018.